Infrastructure Engineer

Tailscale is making safe connection effortless by delivering software that makes it easy to securely interconnect people and their devices, no matter where they are. From hobbyists to multinational corporations, teams of every size use Tailscale each day to protect their networks, share access to internal tools, and more. Founded in 2019 and fully distributed, backed by Accel, CRV, Insight, Heavybit, and Uncork Capital.

We’re seeking a skilled and diligent full-time Software Engineer to join our growing team. You will work as part of the engineering team to support and enable internal business units through shared engineering services and functionalities, building the tools and processes for those teams to succeed. Build relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organization to understand and meet their needs with projects you'll own end to end. Work directly with internal customer facing teams to empower their mission. Work with product engineering to extract the data needed to drive business decisions.

Example deliverables might include: improve observability through metrics, alerting, logging and telemetry integration; identify and build improvements for Continuous Deployment; utilize infrastructure as code to make changes in a cloud environment; collaborate with other engineering teams to build cross functional infrastructure improvements; automate upgrades for managed services and VMs.

• Work as part of a team of engineers to design, build, test, and document core software components.
• Exhibit ownership over the running services that comprise Tailscale’s product by building for observability, participating in incident response, and fielding customer support escalations.
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

• Experience with CI/CD, secrets management, infrastructure as code, and observability
• Experience with distributed systems
• Experience with operating managed services in a cloud environment (preferably AWS)
• Experience with operating Kubernetes in production is a strong plus
• Familiarity with networks (IP addressing, routing, etc.)
• Most of the non-front-end portions of the system are developed in the Go programming language. Experience with Go is a plus.
• Ability to give and process constructive feedback, as well as work independently
• Flexibility to adjust to the dynamic nature of a startup
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

US Pay Range: $181,000—$226,000 USD. Tailscale's compensation package includes base salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits. Benefits include: health, vision, dental coverage; employer-funded retirement contributions (dollar-for-dollar match up to 0.75% of eligible compensation); $1500 USD annually for professional development; flexible paid time off; home office setup with company-owned laptop, monthly home internet reimbursement, and $500 USD workstation customization; paid parental leave (20 weeks for birthing parents, 16 weeks for non-birthing parents); annual company retreat and team off-sites.

Apply via the Greenhouse job posting. Legitimate emails from Tailscale's talent team will only originate from @tailscale.com, @greenhouse.io, and @interviews.modernloop.io email addresses.